Asia-Pacific countries begin to ease travel bans, but hurdles remain

Japan allows citizens, residents, and visa holders to reenter the country after testing negative for COVID-19 at the airport, with a capacity of about 10,000 per day.

10,000 per day? Yeah, right. More like 10,000 per week.

It was hoped to allow up to 3000/day total entrants by the end of September with the opening of the new airport testing centers, but for the past week, there has only been between 1300 to 2100 tests done per day done on arrivals at all airports in Japan, and supposedly all entrants (both Japanese and non-Japanese) are tested.

Also, for non-Japanese entrants, its been stated that its currently being capped at aroud 1000 non-Japanese per day allowed in.

And its also worth mentioning that also in the past week, between 5 and 13 of those entrants are tested positive for the virus per day at the airports, and that well over 1000 people are currently in airport quarentine with the virus. And lets not forget that all those positive case entrants all rode on airplanes together with other passengers and crew who tested negative on arrival, yet it takes about 4 or days after exposure to actually test positive.

It is a very big risk, but unfortunately also is keeping the borders closed. At this point it seems rational to take a cautious approach, but only as long as some control is still kept. It would not be good to just open all borders without any restriction.

Asia-Pacific countries including Singapore, Australia and Japan are gradually easing some international travel restrictions as coronavirus cases slow, in hopes of helping to revive their economies.

Yet shipping to Australia with Japan post continues to be restricted only to surface mail. I guess small ecommerce merchants don't count in reviving the economy.

together with other passengers and crew who tested negative on arrival, yet it takes about 4 or days after exposure to actually test positive

Good point.

Travellers - citizens and residents - should be tested on the last day of quarantine in order to avoid even more unreported/assymptomatic cases and further spread.

wha difference does it make?!! Just open the boarders as Japan believes they are safe with never a day of more than 400+ cases a day.